[Official] Ghana Breaks Up With Head Coach Otto Addo

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Ghana's national soccer team has parted ways with head coach Otto Addo (51, Germany) ahead of the 2026 FIFA 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup finals. It is only 72 days before the World Cup opens.

The Ghana Football Association said on its official channel on the 31st (Korea Standard Time), "I broke up with coach Otto Addo. Thank you for coach Otto Addo's contribution to the national team," he said, officially announcing, "The next coach will be announced later."

As a result, coach Otto Addo stepped down two years after taking over as the head coach of the Ghana national team in March 2024 and about two months before the opening of the World Cup. Coach Otto Addo was previously dismissed from the Ghana national team in December 2022, 10 months after taking office.

The specific reason for the breakup has not been disclosed, but it is interpreted as a replacement due to poor performance ahead of the World Cup.

Starting with the match against Japan (0-2) in November last year, Ghana's national soccer team fell into a five-game losing streak, including South Korea (0-1 loss), South Africa (0-1 loss) in December, Austria (1-5 loss) on the 28th, and Germany (1-2 loss) on the same day.

Hong Myung-bo faced off in a warm-up match held at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on November 18 last year, and South Korea won 1-0 with Lee Tae-seok's (Austria Vienna) winning goal.

Ghana, which has advanced to the World Cup finals for two consecutive times following the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, was in Group L of the World Cup group stage along with England, Croatia and Panama. The new head coach will play in the World Cup finals after only two consecutive final warm-up matches against Mexico and Wales from May to June.

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